Elvith Ma'for

Former Reddfugee, found a new home on feddit.de. Server errors made me switch to discuss.tchncs.de. Now finally @ home on feddit.org.

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  • They’re a German invention and well known here. There are several variations, they’re usually a kind of sport/balance toy for kids and teens - but there are also some for medical uses. You can find some variants in pictures here: http://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedalo_(Spielgerät)

    They’re also a recurring German meme, although I don’t really know why. The Wikipedia link above mentions them, but only says that it started with an image of a guy on Pedalos with the caption “Bruder muss los” (Bro needs to go) referencing a situation that you want to get out of, but have only inconvenient methods to leave.











  • As I said over and over again: my biggest pet peeve with Linux is that there are often several ways to accomplish something but many are somewhat distribution specific and not really standardized.

    Who doesn’t love to find a tool that has install instructions like:

    Start by installing all required packages with sudo apt get package1, package2,... then clone this repository and…

    Just to realize that a) you’re not running anything Debian based and b) you first step is now to find out how these packages are named in your package manager.

    Or tutorials that tell you to do X and you only find out, that they’re assuming (but not telling you) you’re using Debian and some old package versions that now have a completely new syntax in their configuration, so that either the tutorial doesn’t work or you maybe even f up something by changing values that you shouldn’t touch.

    Best is, of you find help in a distribution specific forum/wiki/… But not all problems can be found there